Best 132 quotes in «anxious quotes» category

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

Time flies when you are anxious!

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

A dream so vibrant, A dream so blissful; I hold it close to my heart. In anxious nights, And days of hope; These years have passed solely. One day the dream to turn true- If only!

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.

Anxiety always originates from a lie. All lies, whether self generated or accepted from another person, will resonate as a pendulum swinging to and fro as a reminder of an inconsistency with truth and impeccability. The further the lie is carried, the more the intensity of anxiety builds. The feeling may begin as unease, building to angst, translating to anxiety, panic, and even dread. Ultimately, anxiety creates stagnancy. What's the solution? Speak the truth even if it scares you. Be authentic.

...and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.

Anxious fills the Enthusiasm that lifts you up from your Tiredness

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Being too careful can be more destructive than being utterly careless.

Being in love is…anxious,” he said. “Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is…you’re naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all…I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her

Cast your anxious thoughts upon the Lord. He waits to hear you speak!

Believe in yourself and relief yourself of the undue anxiety of feelings of incompetency. Leave worry aside and live with the hope that your dominion is not determined by people’s negative opinions!

Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about.

Depression is like a never ending roller coaster ride, there’s times of highs and lows, going slow, going fast, screaming, anxious feelings, scared thoughts, trying to get off the ride but it’s so hard, you can’t.

Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambiguous stimuli and situations as threatening (Eyesenck, 1992), leading to more fear-driven decisions. In people with a dissociative disorder, certain parts are compelled to focus on the perception of danger. Living in trauma-time, these dissociative parts immediately perceive the present as being "just like" the past and "emergency" emotions such as fear, rage, or terror are immediately evoked, which compel impulsive decisions to engage in defensive behaviors (freeze, flight, fight, or collapse). When parts of you are triggered, more rational and grounded parts may be overwhelmed and unable to make effective decisions.